Stories by Dan Smith

A small team of Mass Effect enthusiasts have produced an interactive film based on the game franchise, that allows users to pick the plot progression by selecting options on YouTube's annotation system »

You won't find Sol Neelman perched by the corner flag at a Championship football match on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Instead, the 41-year-old from Oregon takes photographs of what he calls "weird sports" »

A series of powerful solar flares, which began erupting from the Sun on 19 January, amplified the Northern Lights between 21 to 23 January, making them visible in areas of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England »

In 2010, 76 per cent of tracks downloaded in the UK were obtained illegally. However, the video-game industry, which is worth around £30bn globally, is hoping to avoid a similar fate by heading to the cloud »

Is it nature or nurture that determines who we are? For years, geneticists would answer the former, but the scientific community is beginning to agree that an amalgam of environment and behaviour affects how our genes act »

Whether its close-ups of insects, stunning landscapes or even Shuttle launches you're after, the library of photography shared on Flickr with the Creative Commons license offers a bountiful resource of images »